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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.

Ben Folds

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Business Happens Music Sometimes
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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People Thinking Writing
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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Average Business Overtones Public
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Director Song Thinking
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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Feels Want Withholding
I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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Anything People Person Strange
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Every Furniture One Piano Room The Piece
I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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Cards Scotch Writing
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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Honesty Over Want You

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